If you are interested in being considered as an ‘Adoptive’ home, or be
involved and help out as a ‘Foster’ home, please contact me directly at the
following link, and I will forward you a Rescue Application Form that you
can fill out and return (via e-mail) so that I can determine if a current
rescue dog is right for you, or maybe a future rescue would be better.

Thanks so much for taking the time to consider a Rescue Samoyed! It takes a
unique home with exceptional people to open their hearts to these special
dogs.

Lisa Hubenig

Rescue Chair

Western Canada Samoyed Club

Calgary, Alta.

PAST RESCUES

Here are some
of our past rescues (we can’t include them all here!), sweet souls who have
found their new ‘forever homes’ thanks to special people who have opened up
their homes, and their hearts, to these wonderful dogs.

For each, the
first picture is the ‘Before’ when these dogs came to us, and the second
picture is the ‘After’ once they were in their new homes.

Before

After

‘Breezy’
was one of two sisters surrendered to our Rescue group network in
Vancouver. Both girls were fostered with dedicated Samoyed folks, and one
went to Kelowna to a home with another Samoyed. Breezy required longer term
fostering due to an injury she had when she came to us, so she was fostered
out on the Island with our Vancouver Rescue contact for a few months. We
found the perfect home for Breezy – in Saskatchewan! We were referred to
Pilots N Paws Canada, and we worked together to fly Breezy from Victoria to
her new home. The folks dedicated to the Pilots N Paws Canada program were
AWESOME, and we are forever grateful for their generosity! Breezy is doing
well and is involved in various fun doggy activities.

Before

After

‘King’
was not an official ‘rescue’ for us, however, we did help transport him from
B.C. to his new home in north east Alberta. King was a neglected dog that
had lived his 7 years tied to a porch in his own filth, and was completely
blind. Thanks to multiple other rescue groups in B.C., we worked together
and he was able to find a wonderful home in Alberta, and is living the best
of lives running free at last!

Before

After

‘Mishka’ came to us from another rescue group in
Alberta after his owners contacted them to surrender him. They had
initially bought Mishka as a cute fluffy puppy for their children as a
Christmas present. Of course once he was a few months old, he was too big
and too energetic for the house, so they kenneled him outside and basically
forgot about him. Once the barking and digging got too much, and he became
too uncontrollable after no attention or training, they decided to surrender
him. Mishka’s neck was shaved when he came to us due to the collar being
matted into his coat. He was only a year old when he came to us, and after
a few weeks in our care, he was given the best Christmas present himself
that year – his new forever home in Vancouver, where he went hiking in the
mountains his first day there!

Before

After

‘Rex’
and ‘Spot’ came into our program when their senior owners decided they could
not care for all of their dogs. At the time, Rex and Spot were two of six
dogs that the family allowed us to re-home, with more dogs still at the home
– hopefully more manageable for the family now. Both of these young dogs
were almost the same age at 18 months old, and had very little muscle tone
in their rears – different vets assessed both dogs as living in a very
confined area (i.e. like a crate) for most of their lives. Rex was smaller
and nervous without his buddy, Spot, who was just a typical goofy Sammy
boy. We fostered them for a bit, and then we found experienced Rescue homes
for each of them. Rex went to a home with another Samoyed and became a more
confident, friendly boy, and Spot went to a home that previously had
multiple Samoyeds over the years, but with just a cross-breed rescue dog at
the time Spot joined them. Both Rex and Spot developed into true athletic
Samoyeds thanks to a committed exercise program with their families, and
are happy and healthy, enjoying lots of play time!